Tara Brach is a leading Western teacher of Buddhist meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening. She is the senior teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. A clinical psychologist, she is the author of Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha and True Refuge: Finding Peace & Freedom […]

Lama Migmar Tseten has been teaching and guiding students since 1989 and has been serving Harvard students, faculty and staff as a Harvard Buddhist chaplain since 1997. He founded Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1990.

Kyoko Tokuno is a senior lecturer in comparative religion at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She focuses on Buddhist texts and culture of medieval China and Japan, their relation to Indian Buddhism and the development of Buddhist canon in East Asia.

Anthony Stultz is the founder and director of the Blue Mountain Lotus Society in Harrisburg, Pa., a nonprofit organization devoted to sharing the universal teachings of the Buddha in the 21st century. He also oversees the Center for Mindfulness Counseling, integrating Eastern and Western counseling techniques.

Sung-bae Park is a professor of religious studies at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, with an expertise in interfaith dialogue such as Buddhist-Christian dialogue and the Buddhist-Confucian debate in Korea. He is the founder and director of the Center for Korean Studies at Stony Brook.

Mark Nathan is an assistant professor of history and Asian studies at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He specializes in Korean Buddhism from the late 19th century to today, and also studies law and religion, transnational religious developments and religious propagation in Asia.

John Makranshky is an associate professor of Buddhism and comparative theology at Boston College. He is the senior faculty advisor and visiting lecturer for Kathmandu University’s Centre for Buddhist Studies in Nepal. He is also the guiding teacher and co-founder of the Foundation for Active Compassion. He researches Indian Buddhist texts to see how doctrines […]

Dokuro Jaeckel is a Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University. He was ordained a Zen monk by one of the foremost Japanese Zen masters in the United States, Joshu Sasaki Roshi.

Maria R. Heim is an asssociate professor of religion at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass. Her research centers on South Asian religions, with a specialization in Buddhism. She primarily focuses on the intellectual history of the Theravada tradition today in Sri Lanka and mainland Southeast Asia.